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Anna Duggar Is Unrecognizable in Return to Social Media Almost 5 Years After Husband Josh Duggar’s Child Pornography Arrest
The disgraced former star of TLC’s reality show about the Duggar family, ’19 Kids and Counting,’ shares seven kids with his wife Anna
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- Josh Duggar’s wife, Anna, has started posting on social media to promote her family dog breeding business, Golden Grove Pups
- The disgraced former star of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting is currently serving time in federal prison for two charges of knowingly receiving and possessing child sex abuse images
- Some of Anna and Josh’s seven children, whose ages range between 4 and 16 years old, appear with the dogs in various videos on Anna’s new TikTok and Instagram pages
Anna Duggar is back online with a new social media page while her husband, Josh Duggar, serves time in federal prison.
In a TikTok uploaded on Wednesday, Feb. 18, Anna — who looks unrecognizable with a new blonde hairstyle— made a rare appearance on camera as she introduced a trio of dogs to her community of followers on her dog adoption business, Golden Grove Pups, which totals at around 6,400 users across platforms.
The video marks one of her first social media posts since her husband, Josh, 37, who rose to fame on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, was arrested in April 2021 and sentenced to more than 12 years of federal prison in May 2022 for two charges of knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography. He is currently serving his over 12-year sentence at FCI Seagoville federal prison in Texas, with an expected release date sometime in 2032.
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In 2015, years before a May 2019 investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigators (HSI) accused Josh of downloading “child sexual abuse material,” he was also accused of molesting five girls, including his sisters Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and Jill.
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Upon his release, he will be required to be supervised by a parole officer for 20 years and is prohibited from any unsupervised contact with minors, including his own children. Josh and Anna are parents of seven: they share daughters Mackynzie, 16, Meredith, 10, Maryella, 6, and Madyson, 4, and sons Michael, 14, Marcus, 12, and Mason, 8.
Throughout all of Josh’s troubles and controversies — which included his admission that he was unfaithful to Anna during their marriage — she has stood by his side. After he was found guilty in December 2021, she wrote a letter to the judge ahead of Josh’s sentencing, asking for a “fair sentence” that would “reunite us as a family again soon.”
Since his conviction, Anna, 37, has tried to remain out of the spotlight. She deleted her personal Instagram account, where she previously regularly posted about Josh and their children. She only recently reemerged on TikTok and Instagram to promote her dog adoption business, Golden Grove Pups.
Anna regularly shares videos and photos of the English cream golden retrievers she breeds and socializes at home. Though her content focuses exclusively on the golden retrievers, several of Anna’s children with Josh appear in videos. The kids are usually shown holding and playing with the adoptable puppies, though in some clips, they speak to the cameras about the dogs as well.
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The Golden Grove Pups website specifies that the dogs are “raised in a loving family environment” and “grow up surrounded by children, other dogs, and cats, which helps them develop into well-socialized, adaptable companions.”
